Networking, Communication and Capacity Building (NECCAB)

The NECCAB programme aims to build the capacity of communities, through NGOs and CBOs, to influence decision-making by:

• lobbying for the domestication and harmonisation of international conventions/agreements at the national level;
• analysing the impact of the international trade policies on developing countries;
• following up on the decisions and strategies and the proceedings at the Bretton woods institutions, annual G-8 meetings, the ACP-EM Partnerships Agreements, regional protocols and treaties;
• carrying out research on the impact of macro-economic policies on local economies;
• advocating for appropriate decisions and actions to negotiate the impacts of the global micro-economic policies;
• networking with other like minded civil society organisations (CSOs) in the south in order to undertake common decisions and actions in mitigation of the macro-economic policies;
• developing capacity of CSOs, NGOs and CBOs in the realisation of macro-economic policy analysis and their impact on mitigation; and
• consulting with like-minded organisations in the south and north on common decisions and action on mitigation of the negative impact of international trade.
   

Each of the three CBOs within this project owns a community radio station, which further helps to enhance the information dissemination and lobbying capacity of the programme.

• Mang'elete Community Radio, Nthongoni, Makueni District Kenya.
• Kagadi Kibaale Community Radio, Kibaale, Uganda.
• Orkornerei Radio Services, Terrat, Tanzania.
   

Economic Development, Environment.

EcoNews Africa (ENA) is an indigenous organisation which was established by NGO workers from Kenya as a facility to meet the information requirements of NGOs in East Africa in order to enhance their involvement in particular in international decision-making processes that impinge on sustainable development in East Africa. ENA's activities are undertaken in collaboration with established service-delivery and advocacy NGOs and CBOs.  The three community organisations involved in the project bring together members of rural communities.

• MCIDP brings together 33 women rural groups whose aim is to improve reproductive health, agricultural productivity, and information sharing among the rural economically poor.
• IOPA brings together pastoral Masaai communities from the five districts of Same, Mwanga, Lushoto, Simanjiro, and Korogwe.
• URDT endeavours to improve the livelihoods of the peasant households in the sub-counties in Kibaale District.

Each of these projects is located in a remote and marginal area with the economically poor forming the majority of the beneficiaries.